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4 minutes ago, Declan52 said:
No way would it take 15 days for 2 brickies to lay 1600 blocks. So are they going to build an average of 53 a blocks each day. Should be no more than 5-6 days. Each brickie should be building 250-300 blocks in a day esp with no insulation to worry about. As long as the studs are marked out to nail the ties in they should be waiting on you to lift scaffolding and to load it out.
Your last point raises an interesting question.
The scaffold will be up to the second lift for the timber framers.
Will I then have to take it all down or will the brickies be happy to work around it? with just the 2 board bracket removed when they get that high?
MBC's spec is stepped out from the foundation by 2ft so its not tight:
The scaffold needs to be set approximately 2 feet from the outside of foundation base edge outline. The primary lift decks need to be a 4 board width platform and there needs to be a 2 board bracket to the inside of this to bring the planks in closer to the edge of the foundation base (so a total of 4 boards on main scaffold + 2 boards on the bracket).
For the platform lifts, we would then require platforms set about 2ft (600mm) below first floor level and the same at eaves level.And again we’d need a scaffolding lift at the gable ends set 2 ft below the ridge
